On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Raj Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: >> What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments (created >> with Acrobat Professional) on GNU/Linux? Evince (the default gnome >> viewer) displays the yellow comment icons but does not show the text. >> For the time being I am using PDFEdit to manually navigate the tree >> and extract the comments but it is *very* inefficient and time >> consuming. Evince has the ability to read/edit comments in its >> roadmap but I need a solution now. > > See if kword will show you the comments. Not exactly a PDF reader, > though.
I like to stick to Gnome so no KWord. I did try openoffice though with ghastly results. I also tried the Linux version of foxit, no sign of comments (Evince was better in that it atleast shows the yellow comment bubbles). Comments do work on the windows version so the linux version seems to be behind. Finally installed 'acroread' from medibuntu repositories, a massive 100 MB beast. It's ironic - I don't use acrobat even at work where I'm stuck with windows. Acrobat is a resource hog and is always asking for updates. Well on the brighter side, it's better than receiving docx and pptx files - which is what I was getting before I forced people to convert to pdf - and which is why I can't start complaining about PDF (that won't make anyone happy). -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
